Jul 17 2008
Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis was created by David Cerny an exceptional sculptor, passionate novice aviator and occasional actor and painter, known both in the Czech Republic and abroad. All his works are humorous and sometimes off color, but the Czechs love and take pride of David Cerny. Quo Vadis is trabant car on stilts with feet made out of fiberglass and located in the garden of the German Embassy at Vlašská 19 in Malá Strana. At first it was exhibited as a part of the exhibition “Old Town Courtyards” in 1991 as a reminder of the summer of 1989 when thousands of East Germans left their Trabant cars in the streets of Malá Strana and camped out in the embassy’s garden waiting for West German citizenship. The installation of Quo Vadis at the Old Town Square took place during night hours on the day of re-unification of the German currency. David Cerny made it in a courtyard on his expenses; he got the car for free from the scrap yard and only used about 40 kilograms of fiberglass.